Fort Hall

Fort Hall was a fur trading fort in Bannock County, Idaho which was built in 1834 by Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth. In 1837, Wyeth sold the post to the British Hudson's Bay Company, and it was turned over to the United States in 1846 after Britain agreed to cede the Oregon Country to the US government. During the 1850s, it was an important waystation on the Oregon Trail, with 270,000 emigrants reaching Fort Hall on their way to the American West. In 1870, a newer fort was built to protect stagecoaches, mail, and travelers, and it became part of a Native American reservation in 1867. In 2010, the census-designated place of Fort Hall had a population of 3,201 people.